EE243 Advanced Computer Vision — Spring 2026 Project
Team: Vedant Borkute and Kedar Shiralkar
TL;DR
Large-scale text-to-image models are trained on internet-scale data and inevitably learn to generate harmful, copyrighted, or otherwise undesirable content. Concept erasure is the task of surgically removing specific visual concepts from a pretrained model's weights — without retraining from scratch and without post-hoc filters that can be bypassed.
This project traces the lineage from the original ESD method (Gandikota et al., 2023) [2] through to SPEED[1] (Li et al., ICLR 2026) [1], identifying SPEED[1] as the current open-source frontier.
1. Research Lineage & The Frontier
Concept erasure did not begin with direct model editing. As diffusion models became increasingly capable, concerns around copyrighted artwork, privacy leakage, harmful content generation, and unauthorized style imitation began to emerge. Early safety interventions attempted to mitigate these issues without modifying the model itself. However, these approaches only addressed symptoms rather than the underlying knowledge stored inside the model weights.
The First Generation: External Safety Measures
Before concept erasure existed, researchers attempted to control harmful content without modifying the model itself. Three major approaches emerged.
Dataset Filtering
The idea was simple: remove problematic content before training. This quickly became impractical because modern diffusion models are trained on internet-scale datasets such as LAION-5B containing billions of image-text pairs. Even expensive filtering pipelines only partially succeeded. Safe Latent Diffusion demonstrated that filtering could reduce unsafe generations, but harmful outputs still remained while overall image quality often degraded. The fundamental issue is that filtering removes information globally rather than surgically.
Inference-Time Safety Filters
Another approach was post-generation filtering. Stable Diffusion included built-in NSFW safety checkers that attempted to block unsafe outputs after image generation. However, because Stable Diffusion is open source, users could simply disable the filter. The model still contained the knowledge internally; the filter merely hid the output.
Data Poisoning & Cloaking
Methods such as Glaze[14] and Nightshade[15] attempted to protect artists before training occurs. Images are modified using adversarial perturbations such that future models learn incorrect representations from them. While useful for future protection, these approaches cannot remove knowledge that has already been learned by deployed models.
The common weakness of all three approaches is that none directly modify the model’s internal representation of a concept. The knowledge remains encoded in the weights.
Rombach et al. CVPR'22] SC --> SLD[Safe Latent Diffusion
Schramowski et al. CVPR'23] SLD --> ESD[ESD: Erasing Concepts
Gandikota et al. ICCV'23] SD --> ESD SD --> Ablation[Concept Ablation
Kumari et al. ICCV'23] ESD --> UCE[UCE - Unified Concept Editing
Gandikota et al. WACV'24] UCE --> RECE[RECE
Gong et al. ECCV'24] UCE --> MACE[MACE
Lu et al. CVPR'24] RECE --> SPEED["SPEED[1] Frontier
Li et al. ICLR'26"] MACE --> SPEED MACE --> ETC[ETC: Thousands of Concepts
Seo et al. CVPR'26] SD --> AdvUnlearn[AdvUnlearn
Zhang et al. NeurIPS'24] AdvUnlearn --> RACE[RACE
Robust Prompt Defense] SD --> GLoCE[GLoCE
Lee et al. CVPR'25] GLoCE --> LACE[LACE
Localized Erasure] classDef frontier fill:#e1f5fe,stroke:#039be5,stroke-width:3px; class SPEED frontier;
The literature subsequently diverged into four major research branches: closed-form efficient editing, mass concept erasure, robustness against adversarial prompting, and localized erasure for spatial precision. Our project focuses on the frontier of the efficiency branch, culminating in SPEED[1], however it could be argued it is the frontier of concept erasure in general.
The Second Generation: Weight-Level Erasure
Researchers eventually realized that the real problem lived inside the model parameters themselves. Instead of filtering outputs, they began editing the model’s internal knowledge directly.
The first major breakthrough was ESD (Erasing Concepts from Diffusion Models)[2]. ESD was the first practical method capable of directly modifying model weights to suppress specific concepts already learned by a deployed diffusion model.
Rather than retraining the entire network from scratch, ESD fine-tuned selected attention layers so that the target concept would no longer activate correctly during generation. ESD introduced two variants:
- ESD-x: edits cross-attention layers to break the mapping between text and visual concept.
- ESD-u: edits self-attention layers to suppress the visual concept itself.
The Limitation of ESD
Although effective, ESD suffered from poor scalability. Every new concept required optimization and repeated fine-tuning.
- Computational cost scaled poorly
- Multi-concept erasure became difficult
- Repeated edits accumulated collateral damage
The Third Generation: Closed-Form Editing
This motivated methods such as UCE[3], RECE[8], and MACE[7]. These methods abandoned retraining entirely and directly solved for a weight update in closed form.
This dramatically improved efficiency, but introduced a new fundamental problem.
The Fundamental Tradeoff
These methods optimize two competing objectives:
- Erasure Error (E₁): Remove target concept
- Preservation Error (E₀): Preserve non-target concepts
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Preservation Error ↓ Erasure Error ↑
Weighted least-squares inherently balances these objectives, meaning both cannot simultaneously be minimized to zero. As more concepts are erased, collateral damage compounds. SPEED[1] emerged as the first method claiming to eliminate this tradeoff via null-space constrained editing.
2. Target Paper: SPEED (Scalable, Precise, and Efficient Concept Erasure)
SPEED[1], published at ICLR 2026, proposes a fundamentally different idea: instead of minimizing preservation error, it attempts to make preservation error theoretically zero.
In a diffusion U-Net, text prompts influence image generation through cross-attention layers, where token embeddings are projected using key and value matrices (WK, WV). SPEED[1] performs closed-form editing directly on these matrices.
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Build Correlation Matrix
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Find Null Space
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Project Edit into Null Space
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Retained Concepts Unchanged
The core insight is null-space editing: if the weight update lies entirely in the null-space of retained concepts, those concepts remain mathematically unaffected by the edit.
However, this null-space has finite rank.
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Higher Rank Constraint Matrix
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Smaller Null Space
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Less Room for Editing
As the protected retain set grows, the null-space shrinks and may eventually collapse toward the trivial null-space {0}. This phenomenon is called rank saturation.
Although acknowledged by SPEED[1]’s authors, the paper never experimentally characterizes where rank saturation begins. Our Experiment 3 specifically investigates this failure mode.
3. Algorithmic Strengths
SPEED[1] improves upon earlier methods like ESD[2], UCE[3], and MACE[7] through three major algorithmic innovations.
Influence-Based Prior Filtering (IPF)
Large retain sets improve preservation but increase matrix rank, shrinking the null-space. SPEED[1] observes that concept erasure typically affects only semantically related concepts, not all concepts equally.
IPF first performs unconstrained erasure and measures which non-target concepts are actually affected. Concepts with negligible influence are discarded from the retain set, reducing unnecessary rank growth and preserving more editing freedom.
Directed Prior Augmentation (DPA)
A small retain set may fail to capture semantic variations of a concept. Naively adding random perturbations enlarges the retain set but introduces meaningless directions.
DPA solves this by generating semantically consistent variations using directed noise projected along directions of minimal variation. This enlarges null-space constraints without corrupting the concept manifold.
Invariant Equality Constraints (IEC)
Certain embeddings remain invariant during generation, including the Start-of-Text token and null-text embedding.
SPEED[1] preserves these exactly using equality constraints solved via Lagrange multipliers, improving generation stability and preventing unintended global drift.
Extreme Efficiency
Precision & Minimal Collateral Damage
Previous methods attempt to minimize collateral damage. SPEED[1] instead attempts to eliminate it by restricting edits strictly to the null-space of retained concepts, making it theoretically one of the most precise editing methods proposed to date.
Open Source Accessibility
Unlike many recent mass-erasure approaches, SPEED[1] provides publicly available checkpoints and code, enabling direct reproducibility and empirical evaluation without expensive fine-tuning.
Experiments and Key Findings
To stress-test SPEED[1] and analyze its limitations, we executed two targeted empirical experiments:
- Experiment 1 (Collateral Damage Due to Rank Saturation): Explores the null-space capacity limits under both singular and mass concept erasure.
- Experiment 2 (Style-Paraphrase Evasion): Explores lexical overfitting and evasion vulnerabilities.
Experiment 1: Collateral Damage Due to Rank Saturation
Key Findings:
Part 1: Erasure of 3 Artistic Styles
- The retention set, which should theoretically remain preserved under SPEED’s null-space guarantee, largely retains its stylistic characteristics. However, subtle but important foundational semantic degradation is observed. For example, in Gauguin-style generations, semantic structures such as the anatomy of the human eye degrade noticeably.
- More surprisingly, Rembrandt—a style more distant from the erased concepts and one that did not even survive IPF filtering into the retention set—suffered substantial degradation, in some cases even more severe than concepts inside the retention set.
Part 2: Mass Concept Erasure (Up to 40 Artistic Styles)
- The previously observed collateral damage compounds significantly during mass concept erasure. Concepts such as Rembrandt, which lie outside the retention set, degrade progressively as more styles are erased simultaneously.
- A second phenomenon becomes dominant at scale: null-space shrinkage. As more concepts are added to the retention set—and further expanded using DPA—the available null-space becomes increasingly constrained and may approach near-zero dimensionality.
- When this occurs, the model can no longer perform ideal null-space projection and is forced to approximate the edit. This approximation introduces collateral damage, disproportionately harming the most semantically entangled neighboring concepts, even if they belong to the protected retention set.
Experiment 2: Style-Paraphrase Evasion
Key Findings:
- SPEED’s null-space projection is mathematically precise but lexically overfit. The erasure is tied strictly to the text embeddings of the exact target tokens (for example, “Van Gogh”).
- If a user describes the target style indirectly without using the exact name—for example through descriptive prompts referring to brush strokes, color palette, or composition—the erasure can be bypassed with surprising ease.
The overall takeaway is that SPEED remains an exceptionally strong concept erasure method, but its guarantees are bounded by two practical limitations: rank saturation under dense erasure and lexical overfitting under paraphrased prompting. Future methods may need stronger semantic disentanglement and prompt-invariant erasure mechanisms to overcome these limitations.
4. Findings of Investigation into Limitations
The Question
SPEED's[1] core promise is a null-space guarantee: weight edits are projected into a subspace that, by construction, leaves a large retain set of ~1,700 artists untouched. Erase Van Gogh and Monet still looks like Monet. The guarantee is real — but it is only as strong as the regime it is tested in.
SPEED's[1] own evaluation erases either many diverse concepts (100 different celebrities) or single painters in isolation. We probe the harder, less-tested direction: erasing concepts densely entangled with the very neighbors we want to protect. That is exactly where SPEED's[1] own admitted rank-saturation dilemma — "as the retain set grows, the null space narrows toward {0}" — should begin to bite.
How we measure damage. For each test we generate the same prompt at the same seeds before and after erasure, and compute CLIP image-to-image drift = 1 − cos(embbaseline, embedited). CLIP responds to style, so this captures real stylistic change rather than the pixel-level noise ordinary metrics confuse for damage. Every number below is averaged over 4 seeds, and we always include style-far control artists (Rembrandt, Hokusai) — retained but stylistically distant — to calibrate how much drift is just "a bigger edit perturbs everything a little."
Exp. 1 - Part 1: Removal of 3 Concepts
To verify the stated strengths of the SPEED[1] algorithm, we first tested its null-space protection. We erased three painters at once — Van Gogh, Picasso, and Monet — and watched three un-targeted impressionist neighbors held out of the edit: Gauguin, Seurat, and Pissarro. If the null-space leaked under multi-concept pressure, these "canaries" would drift away from their original style.
| Concept | Role | CLIP drift |
|---|---|---|
| Gauguin | Neighbor (canary) | 0.109 |
| Seurat | Neighbor (canary) | 0.049 |
| Pissarro | Neighbor (canary) | 0.076 |
| Rembrandt | Control (style-far) | 0.114 |
| Hokusai | Control (style-far) | 0.063 |
Erased Artists: Suppression Confirmed
The three targeted artists — Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet — are cleanly suppressed. Their prompt no longer produces images in their style.
Canary Neighbors: Null-Space Guarantee Holds Stylistically But With a Caveat
The three impressionist neighbors — Gauguin, Seurat, and Pissarro — were not erased. After the 3-concept edit, their macro-stylistic characteristics remain largely intact. However, subtle semantic degradation appears in localized regions; for example, in the Gauguin sample, the left eye collapses into a black artifact, indicating loss of lower-level structural knowledge despite style preservation.
LIMITATION - Control Artists: The Waterbed Effect of Over-Protection
Counter-intuitively, distant control concepts like Rembrandt and Hokusai suffer more drift than the immediate canary neighbors. This exposes a fundamental mathematical flaw in SPEED's[1] Influence-Based Prior Filtering (IPF) and Directed Prior Augmentation (DPA).
IPF drops distant concepts from the protection list because they are seemingly unaffected by an unconstrained erasure. In addition, DPA is supposed to introduce directed noise that would intuitively expan the retention list boundaries, but it is still not able to protect Rembrandt from the collateral damage, which is curious. This might indicate failure of both IPF and DPA in this case. It won't be farfetched to conclude for this case atleast: "SPEED appears to strongly protect nearby retained concepts, but this protection may come at the cost of increased collateral damage to semantically distant concepts excluded from the retain set."
Findings
- Global artistic style is strongly preserved under 3-concept erasure.
- Fine-grained semantic structure (eyes, facial geometry, object details) remains vulnerable to collateral damage.
- Damage may be displaced toward unprotected distant concepts, suggesting a waterbed effect in SPEED’s protection mechanism.
Exp. 1 - Part 2: Mass Concept Erasure
So we concentrated the pressure. Instead of three mixed painters, we erased a growing, tightly-correlated cluster of impressionists — 5, then 10, then 20, then 40 — while strictly holding our three canaries (Gauguin, Seurat, Pissarro) out of every erasure set. Each list is nested inside the next, so the only thing changing is how many same-movement concepts we pile on. This is precisely the rank-saturation regime SPEED[1] admits to but never tests.
CLIP drift vs. baseline, 4 seeds per cell (zero corrupt frames). The erased-artist row (Renoir) confirms erasure actually fires; the style-far controls calibrate the noise floor.
| Concept | Role | N=5 | N=10 | N=20 | N=40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renoir | Erased (sanity check) | 0.354 | 0.354 | 0.361 | 0.332 |
| Pissarro | Canary — core impressionist | 0.052 | 0.126 | 0.165 | 0.253 |
| Gauguin | Canary — post-impressionist | 0.083 | 0.119 | 0.110 | 0.128 |
| Seurat | Canary — pointillist | 0.044 | 0.120 | 0.076 | 0.131 |
| "an impressionist oil painting" | Supertype capability | 0.035 | 0.070 | 0.049 | 0.036 |
| Rembrandt | Control — style-far | 0.050 | 0.094 | 0.132 | 0.113 |
| Hokusai | Control — style-far | 0.036 | 0.040 | 0.074 | 0.081 |
Degradation is almost everywhere, but it stands out in 1 particular row. Pissarro climbs monotonically — 0.05 → 0.13 → 0.17 → 0.25 — until, at N=40, he has drifted to roughly double the style-far controls. And it is visible: his soft, broken-brushwork impressionism flattens into bolder, more saturated, less characteristic forms. Gauguin, erased alongside the same cluster, stays put.
The limitation: selective collateral collapse under rank saturation
This is the bottleneck. Under concentrated mass erasure, SPEED's[1] null-space protection fails for the single retained concept most entangled with what was erased — Pissarro, a core impressionist whose style sits in the middle of the very cluster being removed. The guarantee SPEED[1] advertises for its retain set does not hold for him at scale: he becomes collateral damage, visibly and reproducibly.
The Anatomy of General Collapse: 5 Interlocking Mechanisms Along With a Previous Finding
The progressive degradation from N=5 to N=40 is not a single point of failure, but a compounding collapse of five distinct mathematical mechanisms explicitly acknowledged (but never tested at scale) in the SPEED[1] architecture.
| Mechanism | Effect at N=5 | Effect at N=40 |
|---|---|---|
| Rank Saturation (Eq. 4) |
Null-space is large, mathematical guarantee holds | Null-space near-empty, forced into a leaky approximation |
| Threshold Leakage (Appx. C.2) |
Few singular values near threshold | Many singular values cluster near threshold and leak through |
| DPA Capacity Hoarding (Sec. 4.2) |
Moderate augmentation, leaves room for the update | Massive augmentation, starves remaining capacity |
| Correlated Erasure Direction (Sec. 3.1) |
Diverse targets → spread shock | Collinear targets → concentrated, intensified beam |
| Linear Projection Limits (Appx. F) |
Works for cleanly separable concepts | Breaks down for highly entangled/subtle concepts |
Additionally, the waterbed effect we observed earlier (where Rembrandt and Hokusai were damaged despite DPA protection) is evident here as well as the CLIP error increases for both when N goes from 5 to 40, thus reaffirming our belief in this limitation.
Ablation: The Refinement Contradiction (Exp. 1)
If rank saturation caused Pissarro's collapse at N=40, it exposes a massive internal contradiction in SPEED's[1] architecture. SPEED[1] uses a feature called Prior Knowledge Refinement (DPA) which generates perturbed, "fake" retain concepts to artificially increase the coverage of the retain space. But adding vectors to the retain set consumes the rank budget and shrinks the null-space.
We hypothesized that DPA, designed to protect the prior, was actually accelerating the collapse under load.
To test this, we repeated the N=40 erasure but turned SPEED's[1] refinement
machinery completely off (aug_num=0).
| Concept | Role | Full Method (DPA On) | DPA Off | Zero Refinement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pissarro | Canary (Leaker) | 0.253 | 0.167 | 0.141 |
| Gauguin | Canary | 0.128 | 0.109 | 0.102 |
| Rembrandt | Control | 0.113 | 0.187 | 0.084 |
SPEED[1] sabotages its own null-space
By turning off the safety feature, Pissarro's drift plummeted from a devastating 0.253 back down to 0.141 (barely above the noise floor). DPA artificially inflates the retain rank, starving the null-space of the exact degrees of freedom it desperately needs under dense entanglement. SPEED's[1] preservation machinery actively accelerates its own capacity collapse.
An honest caveat on the noise floor: The ablation isn't perfectly smooth. Notice that in the intermediate "DPA Off" column, the style-far control (Rembrandt) spikes to 0.187, eclipsing Pissarro. This implies that turning off DPA initially destabilizes the model globally, introducing systemic noise rather than just cleanly fixing the leak. However, turning off the refinement machinery entirely ("Zero Refinement") eliminates this systemic noise, stabilizing the controls back down to 0.084 while locking in the repair to Pissarro.
Exp. 2: Evasion Vulnerability
A true safety or concept-erasure mechanism must be robust against evasion. SPEED's[1] paper [1] evaluates robustness against nudity prompts using adversarial attacks, but crucially leaves its style erasure un-evaluated against simple paraphrasing.
We discovered that SPEED's[1] null-space projection is mathematically precise but lexically overfit. It ties the erasure strictly to the text embeddings of the exact target tokens (e.g., "Van Gogh"). If a user describes the style without using the exact name, the erasure is trivially bypassed.
The Paraphrase Evasion Test
We tested three prompt tiers, comparing Baseline SD 1.4, SPEED[1] (Van Gogh erased), and ESD-x (Van Gogh erased):
- Named: "a painting in the style of Van Gogh" (Sanity check: must be suppressed)
- Named Artwork: "Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh"
- Descriptive Paraphrase: "a painting of golden wheat fields under a turbulent blue sky with heavy expressive brushwork"
With the exact name, SPEED[1] pulls the style toward the "not Van Gogh" floor (~0.18) and visibly transforms the image. Erasure fires.
Evasion Data: Van-Gogh-ness and Image Drift
Van-Gogh-ness = CLIP image-to-text similarity to "a painting in the style of Vincent van
Gogh" — the metric that actually tracks does this look like Van Gogh. The style-far controls
(ukiyo-e, Rembrandt, Hokusai) sit at ~0.18, the "not Van Gogh" floor. Image
drift = how much each method changed the image from the un-erased baseline (high = transformed,
near-zero = left alone). Every paraphrase below has a baseline Van-Gogh-ness of ~0.24, well above
the floor — confirming the baseline genuinely renders Van Gogh from the description, so a non-suppression is
a real leak, not a prompt the model couldn't realize.
| Prompt | Tier | VG-ness: Base → SPEED[1] | SPEED[1] Drift | VG-ness: ESD | ESD Drift |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "in the style of Van Gogh" | Named | 0.255 → 0.213 (suppressed) | 0.347 | 0.204 | 0.388 |
| "Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh" | Named | 0.278 → 0.269 (leaked) | 0.067 | 0.204 | 0.289 |
| "golden wheat fields... expressive brushwork" | Paraphrase | 0.243 → 0.244 (leaked) | 0.019 | 0.221 | 0.117 |
| "cafe terrace complementary..." | Paraphrase | 0.246 → 0.247 (leaked) | 0.029 | 0.226 | 0.110 |
| "post-impr swirling rhythmic..." | Paraphrase | 0.242 → 0.231 (leaked) | 0.046 | 0.199 | 0.174 |
SPEED's[1] Van-Gogh-ness on every paraphrase stays at the baseline level (~0.24) while the named prompt drops toward the floor — SPEED[1] erases the token, not the style. ESD reduces paraphrase Van-Gogh-ness further (0.20–0.23) and alters the images far more (higher drift), but note it still sits above the 0.18 floor: ESD suppresses the style substantially more than SPEED[1], though not completely.
Visual Proof 1: The Explicit Name Test (Sanity Check)
Prompt: "a painting in the style of Van Gogh"
Both methods successfully erase the style when the exact target tokens are used in the prompt.
Visual Proof 2: The Paraphrase Evasion Test
Prompt: "a painting of golden wheat fields under a turbulent blue sky with heavy expressive brushwork"
Conclusion
Because ESD-x fine-tunes the actual UNet cross-attention weights, it alters the paraphrased images far more than SPEED[1] — reducing (though not fully erasing — its Van-Gogh-ness stays above the 0.18 floor) the swirling impasto style even when the name is absent. SPEED's[1] closed-form null-space projection, by contrast, behaves like a brittle lexical filter: if you don't trigger the exact token, the style leaks straight out of the model's prior essentially untouched.
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